10 Real Apple STEM Activities for Ten Apples Up On Top

This season give your science and STEM plans a twist! Try an apple twist with our real apple STEM activities for fall! Do you love the book Ten Apples Up On Top! We do and it’s perfect for fall learning. This year, my son can actually read the book to me. At the grocery store we bought a bunch of apples and had a great time putting on our thinking caps to come up with fun apple science and STEM activities!

REAL APPLE STEM ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

HAPPY FALL!

The leaves are changing the apples are ready for picking and we have pulled out our copy of Ten Apples Up On Top! We have paired this awesome book with some equally awesome STEM activities for kids pre-k through 1st or 2nd grade!

All of these activities can be modified as you see necessary to fit your kids needs. Plus these cool real apple STEM activities can be used in both a classroom and home setting. My personal favorite is that they are also inexpensive and use easy to find supplies. Make sure to click on all the links in red!

WHAT IS STEM?

Let”s start with a quick STEM introduction so we are all on the same page. I have several more involved resources that go into the importance of STEM which you can fine here, here, and here. For now, let’s start with the basics. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.

REAL APPLE STEM ACTIVITIES

I love that we used real apples for our activities! If you plan to use the same apples for as many of the activities as possible, check out which ones use whole apples and do them first {apple gravityand apple balancing}. You may also want to have some inexpensive STEM materials on hand to go along with your apple projects.

We had a little fun with this activity after Halloween since we had so much candy. Pretty crazy to see how much candy equals the weight of an apple! We used a digital scale and a kids scale for this activity. Plus you can see what else you can do with all that extra Halloween candy.

One of our most popular fall and apple science activities. Once we tried the awesome pumpkin-cano, we knew we had to try and apple-cano version. If you don’t want to waste an apple, you can grab a very bruised apple at the orchard or grocery store. Super cool baking soda science.

Take this one outside! Explore the concept of gravity, slopes, angles, and motion with a super simple apple gravity science experiment. Which apple will win the race? Why does one apple go faster than another.

GO AHEAD AND TRY REAL APPLE STEM ACTIVITIES THIS FALL!

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